Pierre & Nio:
I tested several things.
First, I selected (from the main menu) "Preferences"..."Network
Connections", which brought up a configuration tool that allowed me to
successfully configure my wireless network.
The nm-applet in the task-bar (inserted by right clicking on the panel)
shows the connected network, but it is the version (without
root-permissions) that can't do anything useful.
But the network worked, and I was able to install Lubuntu 14.04
successfully.
On re-booting the installed system, there was no wireless because of the
lack of the b43 installer package.
So to get network access to install the b43 package, I plugged in the
wireless dongle, and used Nio's method (running from a terminal), which
put the network applet in the task-bar, and it was the good version, so
I could configure it.
I installed the b43 Installer package, then re-booted.
On rebooting, there was no network applet in the task-bar, so I used
Pierre's method to insert it (and now it appears in the task-bar after
re-boot).
I then downloaded updates, and everything is working fine.
I prefer Pierre's work-around, because it is permanent, and is easier to
document for users than Nio's method.
If this problem is fixed before Lubuntu 14.04.1 comes out (in July?),
will the ISO image downloaded include the fix, or will users have to
work-around the problem for the life of 14.04?
- Aere
On 05/08/2014 11:05 AM, Pierre Gobin wrote:
Le 08/05/2014 18:49, Nio Wiklund a écrit :
2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev:
On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with
or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't.
Nio:
I would tell you precisely, but I can only reproduce the problem by
running the live CD or live USB, and on those (test) systems, I don't
have access to my e-mail when I do that.
I did not use a command-line interface to access it (I avoid that if at
all possible).
I right-clicked on the panel (in an area without any icon, and chose
"Add/Remove Panel Items" from the pop-up menu.
I then clicked the "Add" button of the "Panel Preferences" window that
appeared (with the "Panel Applets" tab selected). I don't normally
have
to do this, because the network (or wireless) icon is already in the
panel when the live CD (or USB) finishes booting.
I then selected "Manage Networks" from the list of available plugins,
and clicked the "Add" button.
I then selected "Network Status Monitor" from the list of available
plugins, and clicked the "Add" button.
Then I fumbled around with those additional applets, right or left
clicking on them, and in one combination, I actually got a list of
wireless networks, of which I selected my network, and tried to connect
to it (by clicking on it?).
A simple dialog appeared, asking me to enter the "Encryption key" in a
text box, which I carefully typed in (because I can't see what I'm
typing), and hit the enter-key (or clicked the button to process the
information).
Nothing appeared to happen. There was no error message, but the
network
did not connect, and the icon didn't change in any way indicating it
was
trying to connect.
With that not working, I specified "System Tools" (or maybe it was
"Preferences") from the task-bar menu, and then selected "Network
Connections" (or something like that).
That yielded a simple dialog with 3 tabs, and nothing like what I've
used in the past to configure a wireless network. In that simple
dialog, I did not discover anything that would let me configure a
wireless network.
Hi again Aere,
It works for me with
gksudo nm-applet &
from a terminal window in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS. This is 'a tweak' included
in the OBI tarball described here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172971&p=13016768#post13016768
Best regards
Nio
I saw many users with problems to connect to networks after running
"nm-applet" with root permissions.
To have nm-applet at startup, I only added "nm-applet" in "Default
apps for LXSession", in the tab "Autostart". This solved the problem.
Regards,
Pierre Gobin
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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